R Franklin JamesR. Franklin James grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. As a UC Berkeley grad, she cultivated a different type of writing-legislation and public policy. After a career of public advocacy an serving as Deputy Mayor for the City of Los Angeles, she went back to her first love-writing. In 2013, her debut novel, The Fallen Angels Book Club, was published by Camel Press. Her second book in the Hollis Morgan Mystery Series, Sticks & Stones, was released in 2014, and her third book, The Return of the Fallen Angels Book Club, was released in 2015, followed by The Trade List in 2016 and in 2017, The Bell Tolls. R. Franklin James lives in Northern California with her husband. Read More Read Less